United State President, Barack Obama and the President –elect, Donald Trump, will meet at the White House on Thursday for talks on transition programme.

CNN reports that Obama invited Trump to talk about transition planning, which his team has been working on for nearly a year.

“Ensuring a smooth transition of power is one of the top priorities the President identified at the beginning of the year and a meeting with the President-elect is the next step,” the White House said in a statement.